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Figure skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics – Pairs

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Pair skating
at the II Olympic Winter Games
VenueEisstadion Badrutts Park
Date19 February
Competitors26 from 10 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Andrée Brunet / Pierre Brunet
 France
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser
 Austria
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Melitta Brunner / Ludwig Wrede
 Austria
← 1924
1932 →

The pair skating event was held as part of the figure skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics. It was the fourth appearance of the event, which had previously been held at the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1920 and was also part of the first Winter Games in 1924. The competition was held on Sunday, 19 February 1928. Twenty-six figure skaters from ten nations competed.[1]

Results

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Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser on the way to win the silver medal.
Rank Name Nation Total points Places
1 Andrée Joly / Pierre Brunet  France 100.50 14
2 Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser  Austria 99.25 17
3 Melitta Brunner / Ludwig Wrede  Austria 93.25 29
4 Beatrix Loughran / Sherwin Badger  United States 87.50 43
5 Ludowika Jakobsson / Walter Jakobsson  Finland 84.00 51
6 Josy Van Leberghe / Robert van Zeebroeck  Belgium 83.00 54
7 Ethel Muckelt / John Page  Great Britain 79.00 61.5
8 Ilse Kishauer / Ernst Gaste  Germany 75.75 63
9 Theresa Blanchard / Nathaniel Niles  United States 69.00 79.5
10 Maude Smith / Jack Eastwood  Canada 67.25 95.5
11 Elvira Barbey / Louis Barbey  Switzerland 64.75 97
12 Libuše Veselá / Vojtěch Veselý  Czechoslovakia 60.00 102
13 Kathleen Lovett / Proctor Burman  Great Britain 57.75 110.5

Referee:

  • Sweden M. V. Lundquist

Judges:

References

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  1. ^ "Figure Skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics: Pairs, Mixed". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
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